Soap-press



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- W. T. SGHUBERTH.

SOAP PRESS.

N6. 359,637. Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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WILLIAM T. SCH UBERTH, OF'CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SOAPQPRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,637, dated March 22, 1887.

Application filed May 25, 1886. Serial No. 208,186. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T." SCHU- BERTH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Presses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. W

This invention relates to the construction of the molds for pressing soap into the desired shape. Into these molds are generally sunk or otherwise formed in bass-relievo letters,

' figures, or characters indicating the quality of soap, the trade-mark, or name of the manufacturer, thatwith pressing will imprint into the face of the soap. These indentations, however, make it more difficult to remove the soap from the mold after pressing, without damaging or defacing its edges by handling; and it is the object of this my invention to overcome these diiiiculties, in producing a device by which such soap may be lifted out of the mold before touching it with thehand for entirely removing the same.

My invention therefore consists of a vertically-movable die sunk intot-he center of the mold and of a suitable device for elevating such die to raise the soap out from the mold, all as will be hereinafter described and speeifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view ofthe lower part of the mold; Fig. 2, a section of the entire mold on line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a crosssection of the lower mold on line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

Corresponding letters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A denotes the lower or stationary moldblock, that is to be rigidly secured upon the table of the press by bolts passed through bifurcated lugs a and B, the upper mold-block having a central upper stein, I), for securing it into the vertically-movable pressure-head of the press. The blocks Aand B are concaved in their meeting faces, each to form the mold for one-half of an oval or otherwise shaped piece of soap, the edges around such eoncavebeing made sharp by chamfering the marginal surface for readily expelling and cutting off any surplus amount of soap. x

Each mold-block A and B has fourbosses in relative rectangular positions, each with a vertical hole, which holes in block B are counterbored for the collars c of bolts 0, secured therein, the projecting ends of which bolts enter the holes in block A and afford steady guides for the mold-blocks to be held vertically on line with each other.

The lower mold-block,A,is bored or slotted in its central portion for inserting a die, D, that-may be round, square, or oval, and that is fitted into such chamber or slot of the moldblock to form a close joint therewith. This die D, when on its down position,will be flush with the surface of the mold in block A, but is arranged to be elevated above such surface by a lever, E, pivotally secured in a recess in the bottom of block A, having one forked end coupled to dieD by a screw, d, and its other or handle end protruding from under such moldblock, all in a manner that, by depressing the protruding lever end, the die E will be lifted to project above the surface of the mold. After each operation a leaf-spring, j, will return the lever and die to their former positions.

The modus opercmdi of the device is as follows, to wit: A chunk of soap of a somewhat greater quantity than required for the piece to be formed being placed on the lower mold, A, the upper mold, B, is moved down upon it, whereby thesoap is pressed between to assume the shape of such mold, the surplus'bein g pressed'outbetween the edges and cutoff. Then the upper mold,while being lifted again, will leave the soap sticking in the lower mold, whence it is displaced by depressing lever E to elevate die D, which raises the soap to clear the mold,that then can be easily picked up and removed. I

The die D may be engraved to produce the \VILLIAM 'I. SOHUBERTH.

Witnesses;

J onn W. WEISS, Orro LUEBKERT. 

